Open vSwitch

[Maose]

Hi,
I´m a Network Engineer and Freelancer and I`m a newbie on both sides, Ubuntu and Open vSwitch. My intention is to get a deeper experience in network virtualization and therefore I want to install Open vSwitch on my Ubuntu 12.04 host. I followed the installation description from this link http://blog.allanglesit.com/2012/03/...h-openvswitch/ but I don´t get running the brcompat modul.
The module seems to be available, but it´s not loaded.

$ ls -l /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel
total 5636
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 22 22:49 arch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 503300 Aug 22 23:01 brcompat_mod.ko
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 22 22:49 crypto
drwxr-xr-x 63 root root 4096 Aug 22 22:49 drivers
drwxr-xr-x 53 root root 4096 Aug 22 22:49 fs
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 22 22:49 lib
drwxr-xr-x 46 root root 4096 Aug 22 22:49 net
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5232461 Aug 22 23:01 openvswitch_mod.ko
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Aug 22 22:49 sound
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 22 22:49 ubuntu

$ lsmod | grep brcom
$

Everything else seems to be ok.

$ service openvswitch-switch status
ovsdb-server is running with pid 1170
ovs-vswitchd is running with pid 1182

Can anybody help in this case?


Kind regards

Markus Ose

[yitzhakbg]

I don't know if you got it solved by now.
In any case, here are useful links, some of which recommend staying away from brcompat:
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/tag/lxc
http://networkstatic.net/2012/04/ins...cise-pangolin/
http://s3hh.wordpress.com/2012/05/28...-open-vswitch/

[Maose]

yitzhakbg, thank you for your help, but I could solve the problem by myself. After checking the configuration again and again I could find ou that it was a simple typing error. In /etc/default/openvswitch-switch I forgot to delete the hash-tag at the beginning of the line BRCOMPAT=yes and so the module wasn´t installed automatically.